Phonak regrets and appreciates our understanding as it withdraws from IEM mfg and returns to core business, hearing aids. Posted at www.audeoworld.com webshop:         In these instances, does the mfg typical (on occassion) sell off inventory or discount it?    Separate question...

What a confounding market--even leaving aside the possibly sketchy retailers,  STAX-JP writes  The SR-003 is a 5-pin PRO bias type in-the-ear earspeaker, and can be used by connecting to a driver unit having 5-pin PRO bias output socket. Also, the inner type structure of the SR-003...

[full text in portable] Network support declared my ER-6 dead. Beyond visual inspection, are there diagnostic steps?

Dick Osher in CES Issue Absolute Sound wrote a very favorable comment about LA Audio Electronics M-18 (maybe M-1, 18 watts). He didn't reference url or distributor & google's returning odd data collection sites. I remember seeing advert for LA Audio Electronics, maybe in Brit High Fidelity...

In May Linux Journal review of iAudio 7The COWON iAudio 7, Philip Raymond notes that iAudio 7's default configuration is UMS (user mass storage) device. Writing the iAudio 7 is Linux friendly, Raymond notes that the iAudio 7 appears on the desktop as a volume/drive. Thus it is not necessary to...

So much product out there; I'm overwhelmed trying to compare feature sets just at Cowon's web site. All I need is the functionality to record NPR podcasts of today's news and features that I missed during broadcast. I see this like the first use of VCR: time shift. I won't store or catalogue...

I don't get how the range of iPod & its competitors work for both download and playback. For example, can I download a NPR segment as podcast onto USB drive; then port the content to the iPod competitor, & then play through audio out into stereo amplifier? What protocol for the audiio...

I'm using a Phillips PCDP & Audio Technica Art 7 (audiophile closed back) picked up in Taiwan & Ety 6. (Since back, I put together very budget loudspeaker system using Paradigm Atom & Si-5 T Amp.) I've been thinking about logical upgrade path & one thought was Ray Samuels Audio Hornet. Sam...

I bought an Audio Technica ATH-700 in Taiwan and have also ER-6. The ATH sounds dark and muted from Phillips PCDP & totally dead from earphone out on my Sangean radio---it's like a Tivoli. Where's the best place to start: with $300-500 headphone amp or with better sound source. Ergonomics...

SONY's Minidisc product is so hyper-segmented it confuses me. My reading of BHPhotovideo's features & spec pages let me conclude: 1) N420D works on net, uses AA battries; no mic in, & not HD Minidisc @ $74. 2) NH600D does same, but also HD-MiniDisc @ <$100 3) MZ-RH10 has analogue input...

I'm feeling clueless. There's a new porta corda USB edition and PortaCorda web site notes "sound improved because DAC clearly better than most sound cards." But how is the sound card avoided in the path? I listen to NDR's classical music (Nordendeustch Rundfunk) (http://www.ndrkultur.de) all...

I' m in Taiwan and do research and writing at a video game room. Even with ER-6 silicon (plastic) tips fully inserted and sealed, I hear the ambient sound. Etymotic suggested that the foam tip is more isolating. I'm not finding that so & in fact the black foam tip scratched up skin. Is the...

I can't find the "search" {nForum} button in the new page layout? --well, except "search" FAQ? Is it gone--or am I missing the obvious? Also, each entry is using much more vertical screen space than the old layout. I working from a public terminal with MS IE 5.0, I think -- maybe early...

Is there default advice on changing the filter on ER-6? I've at most replaced filter once in a year---although unscrewed it, pulled it out and looked at it more often. Thought I'd order extra rubber tips also--although this one looks fine. I remember reading a posting from Kelly in which...

What's an easy choice for PCDP if I'm using ER-6's, Naxos & c. classical music cds, and dislike bass and mid-range boost. The only PCDP I've owned is RS 3400 & I've read Duncan's classic PCDP. But it's not the time for me to deal with e-bay and alternate sources. And Duncan is half-hearted...

Right now I have no cd sound source & was considering the Tjoeb--in part because I understood it had a volume control and I could postpone headphone amp and basic amp until end of summer. People at Upscale however cautioned me that sound level might be too loud at Tjoeb's headphone in. It was...

I'm finding iTunes volume control clunky and stepped---maybe Audion 3.02 is a little better. Is there another way to do this--for example: build a passive volume control; or the new ASL products: Reference Tool, Signature (if I knew what they did: scant info from ASL and get runtime Java error...

I'm not doing well trying to study with headphone---too intimate and fatiquing. So I thought about this ultra budget rig just so can have my own ambient noise rather than roomate, street, whatever: Paradigm Atom 180/pr ASL The Wave Mono block 200/pr Sanjean 909 shortwave / fm radio with...

I really want to have near-field speakers in my tiny bedroom, study & I'd like headphones too. Hit on Southelectricaudios Loth Ion B for speaker because I could use low power tube amp. But when I started adding up prices: (headphones)+(headphone amp)+(Loth-600) + ASL Tulip/Orchid (2A3...

Could more experienced DIY'ers give me some sense of how difficult it would be to use a DACT step-attenuator as a volume control (passive pre-amp)? The thought is to use an iBook as a cd sound source from the headphone out port/jack. It's an bedroom/computer workstation system and I'd like to...